SWANSBORO — On an overcast afternoon, Swansboro turned in a shining performance in rolling to the East Central 2-A Conference girls’ track and field championships on the Pirates’ home track.

Jasmine Johnson and Ashton Champion each won two events, and Swansboro claimed three of four relays to roll up 235 points to easily outdistance the field Thursday. Croatan was a distant second with 120.5 points.

No other team had more than 49 points.

Johnson, who was named the ECC’s track and field MVP, won the 100 meters in 12.6 seconds and the 200 in 26.8 seconds while Champion claimed the 100 and 300 hurdles in 16.3 and 49.1 seconds.

Alex Blue won the triple jump at 32 feet, 5 inches and was also on the Pirates’ winning relay teams in the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400.

Croatan sophomore Sammy Jo Layko won the discus (104-0) and the shot, with a personal best of 34-8. She was named the ECC’s MVP for the field events.

South Lenoir’s Caroline Jones, who won the 1,600 (5:24) and the 3,200 (12:04) was named the league’s MVP for track events.

Swansboro’s John Liles was named coach of the year.

“We had a lot of personal bests,” Liles said. “We had some freshmen win two events, too. So that’s good.”

Freshman Abbie Taylor won the high jump (5-0) while freshman Tylor Ring claimed the 400 (1:00.6).

Liles also pointed to three senior leaders, Johnson, Blue and Brenna Kate Grass, saying the threesome “did a great job.”

ECC boys track change: On further review, Swansboro’s De’Andre Thompkins did win the 100-meter dash in the East Central 2-A Conference boys’ championships but wasn’t credited with the victory because of a paperwork snafu.

Clinton’s Josh Armwood was credited with the win, but his coach told Swansboro coaches that couldn’t be the case since Armwood didn’t win his heat. Apparently, however, when the times were recorded Armwood was credited with running a 10.8-second 100 when it fact he came in at 11.8. Thompkins actually ran the 10.8 to win the sprint.

Topsail 5, Northside 4, 8 innings: Northside took Topsail to extra innings, but the Pirates managed to slip past the Monarchs to clinch at least a share of the East Central 2-A Conference title.

Topsail (14-9) finishes 11-3 in the league.

Croatan (12-6, 8-3) travels to Swansboro (14-6, 8-4) tonight before closing out the regular season with a doubleheader against Clinton on Monday.

Swansboro finishes the regular season at East Duplin on Monday.

“We played our hearts out,” Northside Dustin Johns said. “I couldn’t be any more proud of the young men’s heart and desire to play a great Topsail team. We left it out on the field, which is all any coach can ask.”

Topsail scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie it up and then got the winning run in the eighth with no outs when Clark Cota singled home Jake Madole, who had doubled to lead off the inning.

Cards, Crews win: Senior Reggie Crews fired a 2-under 70 at the Jacksonville Country Club to lead Jacksonville to victory in the final Coastal 3-A Conference regular-season match of the season.

Crews, who’s headed to Methodist to play college golf, earned player of the year honors in the league for the second straight year while the Cardinals finished second in the league, 11 strokes behind D.H. Conley.

The NCHSAA 3-A East Regionals are Monday at the Jacksonville Country Club.